Legal Opinion
Protective Life Insurance v. Lincoln National Life Insurance
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 23, 1989No. 88-7255PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Per curiam
Lincoln National Life Insurance Company (“Lincoln”) appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment and its order consolidating the arbitration of Lincoln’s dispute with appellee Protective Life Insurance Company (“Protective”) and the arbitration of claims between Protective and a third party, Munich American Reassurance Company (“Munich”). The only issue we must decide is whether a district court may consolidate arbitration proceedings if the parties have not provided for consolidation in their arbitration agreements. We conclude that it may not.
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- Protective Life Insurance Corporation v. Lincoln National Life Insurance CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1989